How Orson got out of jail:"He had a great pleasure in playing tricks. He was a presti ... prestigi ... pretigidigi ...' Teresa Cavina, deputy director of the Locarno festival, struggles for the right word to describe Orson Welles, whose career is celebrated in a huge retrospective at Locarno, Switzerland, over the next fortnight. When Welles died 20 years ago, he left his estate in a fearsome tangle. Family members, producers and distributors have all been bickering over the rights to his films, many of them incomplete, ever since. Locarno's achievement is to have persuaded the various warring parties to call a temporary truce - at least for the duration of the festival... 'He was tying and untying chains,' Cavina says as she contemplates Welles's extraordinarily complicated business and private life. 'He wasn't a crook and nobody perceived him as a crook. But he was a . . . prestidigitator.'"
